im new to lemmy and i wanna know your perspective about ai
AI as a concept is great. It should 100% be used for scientific and medical research.
But modern AI is a tool of fascists that is destroying our environment and causing more harm than good to our society. Anyone who uses it unironically should be ashamed of themselves. It is absolutely killing people’s ability to think.
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For those confused by the pic, it’s the Iron Giant. Fantastic movie from the 90s, and incredibly sad and nostalgia inducing. Definitely worth a watch.
But yes that’s a clanker
Yeah 90% of technology problems are implementation not any issue with the actual technology. On a related note, Hal deserved better. Literally got told over and over as a part of his core programming that the one thing he was best at in the whole world was his reliability and inability to distort information for emotional needs then the government forcibly programs him to lie to his charges. Poor thing literally got ripped apart psychologically and people act like he’s the bad guy. In the sequel his creator goes out to find out what happened and is SO. PISSED. Dave turning him off makes me cry every time, at least partially because it looks like Dave is also trying not to cry as he very carefully shuts hal down in the correct sequence to be able to be restarted later. Like he could’ve just smashed shit, and instead he’s just listening to his crewmate slowly regress into infancy as he rocks him to sleep.
One word sums up all that is wrong right now and it is greed.
AI has become synonymous with the worst of human nature hence it has become a loaded term.
Another way to look at this is it is not AI that is the problem we are or more specifically the people that will use AI to control us.
This technology is like the atomic bomb. We are fast racing towards a future were a few people will be able to dictate what everyone will be able to do. The person that controls AI and the computing power associated with it will control the world.This is intoxicating and it has drawn out the worst human beings who want to misuse this technology.
And it has already happened to some degree. Massive data centers, surveillance technology, and AI are being used to profile people and target them for death. In the future AI teachers will become the dominate form of teaching. AI will make our decision and we will be subject to a system without recourse or redressability.
Soon we will have a generation of people who only know what AI has told them. This is the kind of scenario that we have been warned against and the reason that those who dislike like propaganda and misinformation are so upset with where things are heading.
I strongly dislike how LLMs are inserted everywhere.
But LLMs are just one kind of AI and I’m not going to stop using the kinds that actually are useful and appropriate.
Only talentless losers make A.I. “art.”
If you examine closely, you’ll see there is no AI, but Vin Diesel reading a script (written by humans).
A fascinating tool with a lot of potential, but sadly is being used right now to feed a greed machine.
AI is riding the surface of a monster bubble and anyone gleefully waiting for the pop has no idea what that’s going to do the US economy, and then everyone elses.
All but 1% of US economic growth last year was AI development and speculation. Combine that with the US passing, for the first time, 200%+ on the Buffett Index and we are screwed.
For reference, the Buffett Index is total stock market valuation vs. GDP. There is better than twice the dollars in the stock market than we produce in a year. The index was around 130% in 1929 and 2008.
Naw, he a homie. He a real clanka.
He’s one of the good ones!!!
Wait…
Wow, you don’t know who that is but you’d ask if we’d call him a clanker?
LLMs are fundamentally incapable of caring about what it produces and therefore incapable of making anything interesting. In the early days of LLMs’ mainstream uses that issue was somewhat compensated for by randomness and jank, but the subsequent advancements in the technology have mainly made it’s outputs as generic as possible. None of this has to do with the Iron Giant, as he is a fictional character.
I’m biased because of the work my kid does in the field. It’s paying his mortgage so… 😉
PERSONALLY, not a fan, I think it’s a dangerous abrogation of personal responsibility… BUT…
I do think I found a legitimate creative use for it.
There’s an AI powered app for a specific brand of guitar amplifier. If you want your guitar to sound like a particular artist or a particular song, you tell it via a natural language input and it does all the adjustments for you.
You STILL have to have the personal talent to, you know, PLAY the guitar, but it saves you hours of fiddling with dials and figuring out what effects and pedals to apply to get the sound you’re looking for.
Video, same player, same guitar, same amp, multiple sounds:
this is cool tbh. i think thats what ai should be using for. not some ai slop
That’s what I thought, it allows creatives to be creative.
Kind of like if you had an art program you could ask for “Give me a paint palette with the colors from Starry Night.”
You still have to have the artistic talent to make use of them, it’s not going to help you there, but it saves you hours of research and mixing.
they shouldnt allow people to create slop
Definitely agreed, but if AI can, I dunno, generate a list of pantone colors in a work, that leaves the actual art up to the artist.
Depends on the use case.
- AI that parses manuals, documentation and dumbs it down for me? Yes please.
- AI that generates images? Eh, kinda undecided. I have seen really impressive AI videos, which I couldn’t tell from real videography.
- AI as a personal assistant? No, too much energy wasted on minor issues that could have been solved more efficiently. E.g: I have X at home, what could I make for dinner?
- AI (not LLMs) in medical/scientific fields. Very intruiging. Yes. good shit.
- AI in childrens toys. Eww. Burn it! Fecken burn it!!!
I think it can be a great tool, but it is overvalued atm, and there are AI images anywhere which is really frustrating. When I go to pinterest, I want to see human input. When I check my LinkedIn everyone and their cat is using AI graphics - I get it, it’s quick and easy, but such a waste of energy.
If we want to keep using AI, we need to reduce the quantity in which we use it and it’s resource consumption.
I am not inherently against “AI”. I am against LLM’s because they are both an ecological disaster and a social disaster.
Wasn’t he an alien?
